Spoiler warning: This article contains major spoilers for the film Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc.
Reze Arc hits theaters on 2025-09-19
The latest entry in the Chainsaw Man series, the feature film Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc, opens nationwide on Friday, September 19, 2025.
At the center of this story is a new face: Reze, the enigmatic girl who “just happens” to cross paths with Denji. Below you’ll find a complete primer on Reze—her personality, profile, most-quoted lines, true identity, powers, and what she means to Denji’s life.
- Title: Chainsaw Man: Who Is Reze? Explanation and information roundup
- Scope: Covers Reze’s profile, role in the Reze Arc, quotes, abilities, and key plot developments
- Spoilers: Included for Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc
Synopsis
Denji, a boy who hunts devils alongside the Chainsaw Devil Pochita, scrapes by as a debt-ridden “devil hunter.” Betrayed and murdered during a job, he makes a pact with Pochita in the final moments and is reborn as Chainsaw Man—one who bears a devil’s heart.
Broadcast details
- Format: TV anime
- Network: TV Tokyo and others
- Run: October 11, 2022 (Tue) – December 28, 2022 (Tue)
- Episodes: 12
Main cast (Japanese)
- Denji: Kikunosuke Toya
- Makima: Tomori Kusunoki
- Aki Hayakawa: Shogo Sakata
- Power: Fairouz Ai
- Pochita: Shiori Izawa
- Himeno: Mariya Ise
- Kobeni Higashiyama: Karin Takahashi
- Hirokazu Arai: Taku Yashiro
- Kishibe: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Angel Devil: Maaya Uchida
- Beam (Shark Fiend): Natsuki Hanae
- Violence Fiend: Yuya Uchida
- Spider Devil: Saori Gotou
- Akane Sawatari: You Taichi
- Samurai Sword: Daiki Hamano
- Kurose: Kengo Kawanishi
- Tendo: Hitomi Ueda
Main staff
- Original work: Tatsuki Fujimoto (Shueisha Jump Comics)
- Director: Ryu Nakayama
- Series composition / script: Hiroshi Seko
- Character design: Kazutaka Sugiyama
- Action director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
- Chief episode director: Masato Nakazono
- Devil design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
- Art director: Yusuke Takeda
- Color design: Naomi Nakano
- Screen design: Yohei Miyahara
- Music: Kensuke Ushio
- Animation producer: Keisuke Seshita
- Animation production: MAPPA
- Opening theme: “KICKBACK” by Kenshi Yonezu
- Initial release year & cour: 2022 Fall
Story setup
Now a Public Safety Devil Hunter with Special Division 4, Denji (Kikunosuke Toya) is giddy about a date with his crush Makima (Tomori Kusunoki). Caught in a sudden downpour, he ducks into a phone booth to wait out the rain, where he “happens” to meet a girl named Reze (Reina Ueda). She tells him she works at a nearby café and smiles warmly. The two grow close quickly. From that fateful encounter onward, Denji’s everyday life begins to change…
Release and credits
- Title: Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc
- Format: Feature-length anime film
- Series: Chainsaw Man
- Theatrical release: Friday, September 19, 2025
Cast (Japanese)
- Denji: Kikunosuke Toya
- Pochita: Shiori Izawa
- Makima: Tomori Kusunoki
- Aki Hayakawa: Shogo Sakata
- Power: Fairouz Ai
- Kobeni Higashiyama: Karin Takahashi
- Beam: Natsuki Hanae
- Violence Fiend: Yuya Uchida
- Angel Devil: Maaya Uchida
- Kishibe: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Deputy squad leader: Hidenori Takahashi
- Nomo: Kenji Akabane
- Mysterious man: Kenji Nomura
- Typhoon Devil: Eri Kitamura
- Reze: Reina Ueda
Staff
- Original work: Tatsuki Fujimoto (serialized on Shonen Jump+)
- Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
- Screenplay: Hiroshi Seko
- Character design: Kazutaka Sugiyama
- Assistant director: Masato Nakazono
- Sub-character design: Sota Yamazaki, Shun (credit as listed)
- Chief animator: Shoichi (credit as listed)
- Action director: Sota Shigeji
- Devil design: Chikara Matsuura, Kiyotaka Oshiyama
- Costume design: Yamamoto (credit as listed)
(Additional staff credits to be confirmed by the production)
Reze: quick profile
- Age: Unknown
- Height: Unknown
A mysterious girl who meets Denji by chance
Still floating after a date with Makima, Denji is surprised by a sudden rainstorm. He slips into a phone booth to take shelter—and there he meets Reze. She’s a beauty: striking purple hair, green eyes, and a sleeveless blouse that shows pale skin. It’s hard to imagine Denji not falling head over heels.
Warm yet breezy, gentle yet cool, Reze disarms Denji immediately. He starts frequenting “Futamichi,” a well-known local café where she says she works part-time. Reze takes the lead with Denji—who wears his middle-school-brained heart on his sleeve—and the two grow close fast. Where could this relationship be headed?
Festival night—then the truth comes out (spoilers)
After their whirlwind closeness, Reze confesses to Denji one night at a summer festival. She tells him to quit Public Safety and run away together. Her reason sounds simple: “Because I like you, Denji.”
Denji answers with a big, goofy “I like you too!” But he’s also grown attached to the days he’s spent with Makima, Power, and Aki. He admits he wants to keep both his work and his relationship with Reze going. Reze leans in and kisses him—just when it seems bliss is about to begin…
She bites off his tongue.
Reze’s true identity: she’s a weapon hybrid assassin sent to take the Chainsaw Man’s heart, known as “Bomb.” With a sweet “bon,” she pulls the safety pin embedded in her neck and transforms into her battle form. That “chance encounter” was orchestrated from the start.
“Reze” at a glance: her power and nature
According to Beam (a Public Safety fiend), Reze is known as “Bomb.” The exact devil is never formally named, but her look and abilities strongly imply “the Bomb Devil.” Like Denji and Samurai Sword, she’s a “weapon human”—neither devil nor fiend—created through Soviet human experimentation. Her objective: steal Denji’s heart.
Bomb’s abilities
- Body as ordnance: She can detonate parts—or the whole—of her body at will.
- Mobility by blast: She can ride her own shockwaves to move with frightening speed.
- Ranged attacks: She can throw parts like her head and trigger explosions at a distance.
- Regeneration: Like other weapon hybrids, she heals by consuming blood.
- Close-quarters prowess: Far from a glass cannon, she excels in hand-to-hand combat.
Her sudden betrayal and overwhelming force result in heavy casualties among Devil Hunters.
Lines you’ll remember from Reze
“Because I… like you, Denji.”
- Her confession on festival night. Up to this line, both Denji and readers ride a happy high.
“Denji, don’t you like someone else besides me?” “Bon.”
- Right after teasing this question, she kisses him, severs his tongue, transforms, and goes for the kill—with a disarmingly cute “bon” as she pulls the pin.
“Let me teach you how we fight.”
- Facing Chainsaw Man, Reze offers a grim lesson: a weapon hybrid’s way of war. Denji learns (for better or worse) from the trial by fire.
“I like country mice too.”
- After a brutal underwater bout in which Denji cleverly binds her with chains and drags her beneath the waves to nullify her explosions, he revives her—he can’t erase their memories. He asks her to run away together this time. Flustered, she insists her affection was all “just training,” breaks his neck, and flees. Even so, Denji calls after her: “I’ll be waiting at the café!!”
Later, Reze heads for the station to leave Japan, but in the end, she turns away from the train that should have been her escape and chooses the café where Denji waits. She hesitates step by step, but when “Futamichi” finally comes into view, Makima appears and gently says, “I like country mice too.”
Against the most terrifying presence, Reze can do nothing. Thinking to herself, “Why… didn’t I kill him the first time we met?” she’s quietly “dealt with” by Makima and the Angel Devil.
Reze is voiced by Reina Ueda
- Birthday: January 17
- Hometown: Toyama Prefecture
- Notable roles: Miyo Saimori (My Happy Marriage), Mayu Nekoyashiki / Cure Lilian (Wonderful Precure!), among many others
Work overview—Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc (movie)
Logline
Now a Devil Hunter with Public Safety’s Special Division 4, Denji (Kikunosuke Toya) basks in the afterglow of a date with his idol, Makima (Tomori Kusunoki). When a sudden rainstorm hits and he ducks under cover, he “accidentally” meets a girl named Reze (Reina Ueda). She says she works at a nearby café and smiles kindly at Denji, and the two quickly grow close. From this encounter onward, Denji’s days start to change…
Principal cast
- Denji: Kikunosuke Toya
- Pochita: Shiori Izawa
- Makima: Tomori Kusunoki
- Aki Hayakawa: Shogo Sakata
- Power: Fairouz Ai
- Kobeni Higashiyama: Karin Takahashi
- Beam: Natsuki Hanae
- Violence Fiend: Yuya Uchida
- Angel Devil: Maaya Uchida
- Kishibe: Kenjiro Tsuda
- Deputy squad leader: Hidenori Takahashi
- Nomo: Kenji Akabane
- Mysterious man: Kenji Nomura
- Typhoon Devil: Eri Kitamura
- Reze: Reina Ueda
(C) 2025 MAPPA / Chainsaw Man Project
(C) Tatsuki Fujimoto / Shueisha
Source: AnimateTimes